Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 @ KLIA 2

[Itinerary]

03 July 2014 (Thursday)

7.10 a.m. – 9.10 a.m. Kota Kinabalu >> Kuala Lumpur (Flight AK5135)

1.15 p.m. – 1.40 a.m. Kuala Lumpur >> Krabi (Flight AK868)

Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 @ KLIA 2 is a low cost carrier terminal in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia which has approximately 45 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur city center. It was built to replace with former KLIA Low-cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) which officially opened to public on 9 May 2014.  

Washroom

In the afternoon, we were safety arrived in airport. After that, we called our friends whose flight from Kuching to know where they are as they had been reached. They were having lunch at Texas Chicken so we went around finding them. KLIA was so big that not easily for us to find for Texas Chicken so we had saw “Ask Me” counter to ask for direction. For me,  KLIA 2 seems like shopping mall than airport.

Ask Me Counter

After getting the direction, we had received a call from my friends that now they are finding a place to charge their handphone and will meet with each other later so both of us continued went around looking for lunch.

Jaya Grocer

When we went around, I had saw Jaya Grocer which had been introduced by blogger before so we went in to look around.  In Jaya Grocer, has bento that ready which you just need to put in oven then can be eat. Besides that, it also offer “Cook for you” service which you buy the ingredients and they will cook for you. The cooking charge is RM 8 per serving. Besides food, it also sells some essential goods.

Jaya Grocer: Cooks for you

Jaya Grocer

This cafe near with Texas Chicken

After we look around for a while, we had spotted Texas Chicken (Lot L2M-24) and my friend suggested that we having lunch at there. I had ordered tender wrapping which cost me RM 6.15.  When we were eating, suddenly I saw a couple over other side and when I saw clearly, they are my travel buddies. They having lunch at there and charging handphone.

Texas Chicken

After lunch, we went to waiting hall to wait for our flight. We had queued up wrongly when check up for the passport as we queue up at foreign counter so an airport staff noticed it and asked we to queued up at Malaysia counter there. At Malaysia counter, there did not have any staff to check for our passport because it is self-service system that we just scan the passport and go. 

When at security checking, I had been stopped by Immigrant officer because I had brought the mineral water. For those who wish to bring mineral water to flight, you must empty your bottle and refill it at waiting hall or buy at waiting hall.

During the flight, I had read the Air Asia magazine and accidentally saw a great deal in MBK Center which I will explain more in other post. 

3 Sixty Magazine

In the flight, we were given an arrival and departure card by stewardess to fill in all the details. As this was my first time to fill in so I had filled in wrongly in some particular after double check for my friend’s card. I had request a new arrival and departure card from stewardess when they sell the food.

08 July 2014 (Tuesday)

7.10 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Bangkok >> Kuala Lumpur (Flight FD311)

2.25 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. Kuala Lumpur >> Kota Kinabalu (Flight AK5114)

When arrived in airport, the airport was so big that we keep walking to luggage areas to wait for our luggage. It took some times in getting our luggage. Hope next time the luggage services will be faster because we had walked for a long distance and still need to wait for the luggage more than 15 minutes in order to gets it.  Luckily that the luggage did not missing as we cannot find it at first and quite worry but during the last batch of luggage, it was come out.

Luggage Area

After took for the luggage, we choose to have lunch in Quizinn by rasa which located at L2M-6 7 & 8, Level 2M. This food court has many food stalls for us to try it. I had ordered Banmian (handmade noodle soup) but due to the unclear picture so I did not put in this post while my friends ordered Korean dish and noodle. 

Quizinn by rasa

Quizinn by rasa

At Quizinn has a Newsstand so I had go around and spotted Let’s Travel magazine then I brought a July copy as the price in East and West Malaysia is different.

After bought the magazine, I bought a mineral water at drinks corner. When I want to pay the mineral water, the cashier charged me RM 2.00 then he suddenly asked me that whether I am an airport staff or not as airport staff can enjoy 10% discount. I answered him that I am not an airport staff then he changed the price to RM 2.10. I just wonder that is my face look like airport staff? Haha..

Let's Travel Magazine

Terminal KLIA 2

KL International Airport,

Jalan KLIA 2/1,

64000 KLIA, Sepang,

Selangor, Malaysia

Website: Gateway @ KLIA 2

Inspiration Anti-stress Coloring

When you are stress, what would you do to relieve stress?

Eating? Shopping? Sleeping? Exercise? Travelling?

In this post, I will tell you another way to relieve stress which is coloring. Yup, coloring like a kids. That why you seldom see kids having stress :D When coloring, you will focus on it and keep color the pattern with the color that you likes. After finish coloring, you will feel happy and the stress will disappear too.

Recently, when I was online search for the book, I was accidentally found out an anti-stress coloring book. As it has Facebook Fanpage so I click into it to see more about it.  The name of the Fanpage is 清新舒压着色画粉丝团.

Inside of this Fanpage have 3 samples of coloring that for you to try for so I had asked my sister to join for me to color it. Then both of us choose for the coloring sheet that we want and print it out. The samples of coloring as below which you also can print it out and color it if you interested:-

After print it out, my sister and I started coloring. When coloring, it was fun as it was quite a long time that I did not coloring. It seem like I was back to kindergarten. After coloring, I had seen other fans had posted their coloring picture to the Fanpage. They were so talent that they knew how to color as they not only coloring, they also done for some drawing. Example a shoe, I may color the shoe with red color but other people will try to draw some pattern on the shoe before color it.

Below is the coloring of my sister and I, I know that in term of coloring, I still need some improvement:-

Below are the 3 types of anti-stress coloring book that can be finding:-

*Click on the name of the book will direct you to a Taiwan Book website that you can look for its content for few pages.

1. Inspiration Jardin: 50 coloriages anti-stress

2. Inspiration Zen: 50 mandalas anti-stress

3. Inspiration Vintage: 50 coloriages anti-stress

Wordless Wednesday: Life Scenery

'Wordless Wednesday: Postcard' is recording all the postcards that I had bought from time to time.

These postcards were draw by Silver about her life. She is Taiwanese while her husband is Malaysian so she always travel to both countries.

A colorful green grocery shop in Adelaide Central Market 

A beautiful wooden house in Guanshan township, taiwan

2014-08 Favorite Postcards Received

In this month, the postman miss sent the postcard to me again. The actual owner of this postcard lives same housing with me but different block and lot. 

At the back of this postcard, have 5 smile stamps that collected from different places in Taiwan. Although the stamping did not complete, I still happy to receive it.

Littse and Vanita had their new baby girl. They are so talent in drawing and I was so lucky t received their baby girl’s drawing postcard.

This is a simple black and white illustration postcard that drawn by Yue Er.  I like the words that she writes on postcard, she really good in writing.

我总觉得缘分很奇妙。你和我本互不相识，可是还是在茫茫人海中，不小心打了个照面。甚至今天，你手里还握着了我的小小明信片。我想，上一世的我们，一定是过擦肩的缘分吧？呵呵！

你身边是否出现了一个对的人？ 我相信那个对的人，是用了很多世累计的缘分，真不容易。本来要喜欢一个人不容易，要喜欢的那个人也喜欢自己，更不容易所以遇见了，就好好握紧。如果他还没到，也别着急。他只是等着把更好的自己送给你。

This postcard made me feel so warm with its cute and simple illustration. 

I like this postcard very much as it is an illustration postcard that has same postage stamp and rubber stamp. Great!

I did not know that snail also can be drawing to many different types especially the shell, so cute. The snail has different character such as snow white, cow, artist, book worm and many more.

At Postcrossing, Prince William and Kate postcard in my favorite so Brian knew that and sent the postcard to me. I was so happy as this will be my first Prince William and Kate postcard.  

This is the George Town Street Art postcard. The name of this art is “Skippy” The Giant Cat and Mouse Murals at Armenian Street Ghaut. This cat mural is part of the 101 Lost Kittens Project by Artist for Stray Animals. I hope that I can take picture with all these murals in the future.

This postcard has Taiwan Black Bear said that all the luck gives to you with many clover leaf as background. I also hope that by receiving this postcard, I will be a lucky girl.

Montagne Jeunesse Mask Face Food

This series of Montagne Jeunesse Mask Face Food come with 2 sachets that brim with natural ingredients.

Cucumber & Apple Reviving Masque

Revive your skin and remove impurities with cucumber and apple extracts to moisturize, soothe and refresh tired skin.

Cleanse – Apply – Relax for 10-15 minutes – Rinse

This mask has apple scent. When apply the clay mask remember to put your front hair aside as this clay will stick on your hair. My face feel moisturize after wash the mask off.

Avocado Oil & Walnut Exfoliating Masque

Exfoliate your skin with Avocado Oil & Walnut granules to gently wash away dead skin cells and deeply moisturize

Cleanse – Apply – Relax for 10-15 minutes – Rinse

This mask has some granules that act as scrub besides its function as mask. When opened the sachet, this clay mask has a nice scent of avocado. It is very easy to spread on my face. My face feels smooth after washing the clay mask on my face. 

It has 2 sachets while I just use 1 sachet as using 2 sachets are too many for me as my face is not super big.  

Dead Sea Mineral Mud Cleansing Masque

Deeply cleanse your skin with Seaweed and Aloe Vera. The Sea salts and natural clay gently draw out impurities and hydrate skin

Cleanse – Apply – Relax for 10-15 minutes – Rinse

This clay mask is blue color so when applied it on my face, I look like an avatar. Haha..

Orange Oil & Vitamin C Peel Off Masque

Peel away impurities and dead skin with Orange Oil and Vitamin C. These essential vitamins soothe, refresh and restore skin.

Cleanse – Apply – Relax for 10-15 minutes – Peel

This is not a clay mask but is peel off mask. It has a strong smell of orange. This mask is like a gel and sticky like a glue. Although the time recommendation for mask is 10-15 minutes but I peel it off more than 15 minutes as I need to wait the mask completely dry so that the mask will easily to peel off.

If you did not want to wait for too long to peel the mask, remember to apply a thin layer of mask on your face. When peel it, my face did not pain at all.

1. Avocado Oil & Walnut Exfoliating Masque

2. Orange Oil & Vitamin C Peel Off Masque

3. Cucumber & Apple Reviving Masque

4. Dead Sea Mineral Mud Cleansing Masque

Last, after tried for these 4 types of Montagne Jeunesse Mask, I feel in love with clay mask as it is easily to apply on my face with its nice scent. Besides that, it made my masking times won’t feel bored as it has lots of color mask for me to try for. 

My First Impression about Bangkok

Bangkok is a capital for Thailand. The time difference between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Time Zone: UTC/GMT +8 hour) and Bangkok, Thailand (Time Zone: UTC/GMT +7 hours) is 1 hour. It means that Thailand is 1 hour behind Malaysia.  Bangkok is same as Malaysia that having sunny day all the year.

In July 2014, I had gone to Krabi and Bangkok for holiday. For Krabi, I did not need to do any homework before I go to there as we had arranged for island hoping while I need to do some research before go to Bangkok.

I had online to find Bangkok BTS map that easily for me to reach the places that I want. Usually the travel places such as Siam mall, Terminal 21, Chatuchak and many more can be reaches by sky train. It is very convenience.    

Pic credit: Google

Before go to Bangkok, I knew that the hotel that I will be stay in Bangkok is The Berkeley Hotel so I had searched online to find out where the hotel is located. Luckily, I had found out the part of map that showed the hotel located at. Through the map, I can saw that it quite near with Siam mall such as Siam Paragon, Siam Discovery and so on. The nearest BTS station from hotel is Chit Lom. 

Map of The Berkeley Hotel
Pic credit: Google

In Bangkok, I had got some maps from hotel, City of Bangkok service counter and BTS station which as below:-

Bangkok Pocket Guide

This map get from Bangkok service counter that near at Siam Paragon. This map had included a complete map for Thailand. Besides that, it has also included a more details Bangkok map with BTS map. In this map, you can find the phone number for International Embassies & Consulates and essentials phone numbers such as Medical Center, Tourist Police, Taxi Call Centers, Hospitals, Banks and many more. 

Bangkok Pocket Guide & Official BTS Skytrain Map

Official BTS Skytrain Map

This map can be taken at BTS Station for free. Every month, it will issue a more updated copy with 100,000 free copies. The part that I like with this map is you can find some discount by present this map such as in July, you can enjoy 20% discount to Siam Ocean World but only for non-resident or tourist.

In this month’s copy, it has introduced some travel places in Thailand such as Heavy Metal Buddhist Style or Golden Buddha that is the world’s largest solid gold statue. Besides that, it also introduced Bangkok’s Dusit Zoo which is the oldest zoo in Thailand. In this map, you also can get know the events and exhibition for the month.

In this map, you can learn some simple Thailand language which as below:-

Thailand Official Language

On the final sentence

The man use “krub”

The woman use “Kha”

Greetings

Hello: Sa-wat-dee

How are you?: Sa-bye-dee-mai

I am fine: Chan-sa-bye-dee

Welcome: Yin-dee-ton-rub

Thank you: Korb-koon

Good morning: Ar-roon-sa-wat

Good afternoon: Sa-wat-dee-torn-bye

Good evening: Sa-wat-dee-torn-yen

Good night: Ra-tee-sa-wat

I am sorry: Chan-khor-tod

Good bye: La-korn

See you again: Law-jer-kun-mai

Getting There

Can you speak English: Kun-pood-pa-sa-English-dai-mai

Can you help me?: Chuai-chan-noi-dai-mai

Yes: Chai

No/don’t: Mai-chai/Mai-dai 

Thailand Map

Thailand Map

I get this map from The Berkeley Hotel when we asked for the nearest BTS station from hotel. The hotel staff was so friendly that told us how to reach Asiatique by marked the BTS station that we will meet on the map.

In this map also included essential phone numbers for Emergency, Transportation and Embassies.  This map is full of discount voucher and how to get to King Power Duty Free.

Wishlist (Other places in Bangkok): Hope I can go all those places in future

1. Floating Market: Damnoen, Amphawa, Khiong Lat Mayom

2. Maeklong Railway

3. Siam Square: Mr.Bean Coffee Shop, Hello Kitty House

4. Grand Palace

5. Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC)

6. Chao Phraya River: Temple

7. Too Fast to Sleep: 24 hour Café near with Chulalongkorn University/MBK Centre/Siam Square @ Opposite Chamchuri Square 

Map to BACC
Pic credit: Google

Map to Too Fast to Sleep
Pic credit: Google

8. Gateway Ekkkamai: Japan Theme Shopping Complex

9. Safari World (has many giraffes)

Here are some resources that you can find more about Thailand which as below:

English

Yay Bangkok: It about things to do, where to stay and where to go in Bangkok.

AroiMakMak: It is one-stop guide about Bangkok (Food, Shopping, Spa and Stay)

Bangkok.com: All about Bangkok such as hotels, attraction, tours and others.

World Travel Guide (Thailand): Thailand travel guide

Tourism Thailand: Introduction about the places in Thailand

Lonely Plant (Bangkok): It has some article for Bangkok that you can read as references

Sightseeing Bangkok: Although in this website has promoted some tour package but you can ignore it by read on its recommend places in Bangkok

Chinese

泰国粉丝大本营 Thailandfans Forum: It is a Facebook page that updated with all the information about Thailand

我爱曼谷I Love Bangkok: This Facebook page will introduce to you about the great places and things about Bangkok

Do share with me if you know some awesome website for finding travel information for Thailand as my future reference.

Wordless Wednesday: Hand Drawing Postcard by Yue Er

'Wordless Wednesday: Postcard' is recording all the postcards that I had bought from time to time .

I love the hand drawing of Yue Er which is nice. Although the postcards are in black and white, it still very cute with her drawing.